Sandra McDonagh, at The Blogs

Nov 13, 2023, 12:59 PM

IYKYK, meaning If you know you know, is a saying that is used a lot at the moment. It refers to something spoken or written about, being either a private joke or something only very few people know about. Back...

Nov 6, 2023, 1:16 PM

Double Trouble

A few days after the shocking atrocities of October 7th in Israel, a couple of my non-Jewish friends reached out to me via text and social media to let me know that they were thinking of me and to...

Oct 31, 2023, 7:17 PM

My Fruitarian Era

At one point in time, fruit to me was the elixir of life! But it had to be good quality, sweet, juicy and ripe. As a child I remember my father buying fruit in abundance, the bulk of it generally bought...

Oct 26, 2023, 11:28 PM

Dreaming of a Land of Almond Milk and Agave Syrup

I clearly remember seeing a post on one of the many social media platforms recently asking the very poignant if not pertinent question ‘What does it mean to be Jewish?’. My very Jewish paranoia immediately set in, was this a loaded...

About Me

Hi, I'm Sandra McDonagh (nee Schwarz), and i am a writer. Originally from London, I am now living in Brighton by the sea. Married with three children and vegan for the last twelve years. I have just written my debut book all about my great-grandmother Dora Schwarz, a pioneer and trailblazer of the vegan, vegetarian and raw food diet. Dora Schwarz ran a very successful health sanatorium in Zichron Yaakov, Israel in the 1930s through to the 1960s.

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